HERMON, Maine — A local man whose blood-alcohol level was “almost three times over the legal limit” was charged Monday night with drunken driving after he crashed his pickup truck, Sgt. Mike Burgess of the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday.
“It was a traffic accident that resulted in an OUI [charge],” the sergeant said.
Arnold Getchell, 62, was traveling on the York Road at 5:51 p.m. and ran off the roadway, getting his Chevy pickup truck stuck in the ditch, Burgess said as he read from the report filed by Penobscot County Deputy Jay Hallett.
The officer noted that Getchell was unsteady on his feet, had slurred speech and failed a field sobriety test, Burgess said. Getchell was given an Intoxilyzer test that showed his blood-alcohol level at 0.23. The state’s legal limit is 0.08.
Getchell, who has no criminal history, was arrested and charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants and taken to Penobscot County Jail. He later was released, a jail official said. (Nok-Noi Ricker, BDN)
I’m glad he crashed into a ditch instead of a car load of people. Time to pay up now Arnold.
What about the Grandmother who was pulled over on 395 & charged with OUI, Child Endagerment who had a .30cal semi auto M1 rifle in the back seat?
http://www.kjonline.com/news/Grandmother-facing-firearm-OUI-and-endangerment-charges.html
What about her? That’s yesterdays news. Wanna rehash that, there still a link here somewhere… LOL
I must have missed it yesterday :)
The m1 rifle in the back seat sort of stuck in my mind. =)
she was 48 and going on 70…
Should sue The Ditch Diggers
That’s a good name for a band.
The truck didn’t allegedly end up in a ditch or get there by itself — it was in a ditch — and seeing there was nobody else in sight ‘cept the owner and he was buzzed. Ahem… unless he wants to claim Sasquatch was driving and then ran off into the woods. Just another DUI, it seems, and all that “allegedly” stuff is a bit off-kilter.
The BDN’s headline editors have recurrent problems with putting “alleged” in the wrong spot. A while back there was an article saying someone had been arrested, I forget what for, and the cop had found him hiding in the trunk of his car. The headline had it that the “hiding in the trunk” part was the allegation.
Pretty tough to allegedly hide in the trunk — either he’s in the trunk or not. Nah, the pretending-to-check-the-spare story don’t cut it, sorry. LOL
I very much doubt that the ditch crashed into him. So it follows that he crashed into it because he was under the influence. Or just a bad driver, whichever applies in this instance.
Was this man a state trooper, by any chance?
He was on his way to the polls and was reading the political signs and needed to get a little closer!